On Rubik’s Road

Laila Pakalnina enjoys comparing her new documentary short film with the cinema of the Lumière brothers, but if you watch just a few minutes you can to say that actually her biggest influence are Jacques Tati’s films. Guided by a silently funny ability for observation, this Letonian filmmaker’s camera goes through the Rubik road –a bicycle path that connects Riga with Jurmala– over and over to [...]

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